C road crash in Oxford OX4 on 24 February 1979 at 02:15 involving a car
A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Oxford at 02:15 on Saturday 24 February 1979. The 26-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 1979
- Saturday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72906, longitude -1.21867, in the OX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oxford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197943H038029
- Council area
- Oxford
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 January 1983.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Oxford, 22 January 1983
At the same spotRef 198343H043013
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Oxford, 25 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200543P330125
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Oxford, 26 March 1998
10 m awayRef 199843P200038
Slight
Piaggio PX125 crash on an unclassified road in Oxford, 19 November 2006
14 m awayRef 200643P269116
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Oxford, 30 August 1979
20 m awayRef 197943H066089
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Oxford, 26 April 1997
20 m awayRef 199743P180047
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1
Vehicle type not recorded
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 197943H038029 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oxford road accident statistics for 1979.